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A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
Category: science education
It's Earth Science Week, and this year's theme is Understanding Climate. So it's the perfect time to share some cool videos of women earth scientists and how they are working to improve the diversity and representation of women in atmospheric...
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Category: diversity matters
After tropical forests are cleared for agriculture and then abandoned, secondary forests regrow on the site. But how do plant species composition, biomass and soil organic matter differ through this succession of primary forest, pasture, and secondary forest? Employing...
Posted by SciWo at 10:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in science
Look what showed up in my most recent issue of the NWSA Journal (NWSA=National Women's Studies Association)? I'm in print! W00T! This co-authored paper is in the current issue, which is a special issue on "Inclusive Science" that came out...
Posted by Alice at 7:45 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: what did they say about "balance," again?
This afternoon, as I was busy working with graduate students and my daughter was napping at daycare, an email from AGU reminded me to renew my membership for next year. AGU is one of my two main societies and early...
Posted by SciWo at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: engineering education
A couple of weeks ago, I "attended" a webinar hosted by WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network) on their recently unveiled Knowledge Center. I had never participated in a webinar -- I called up a conference call phone number, and...
Posted by Alice at 11:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
A. Non Mouse, who blogs over at NaCl and hv, has just written a great series of posts about her strategies for successfully bringing a baby to a conference. Check out her how-to posts on childcare, transportation, gear, and accommodations....
Posted by SciWo at 12:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
While I'm working on my course design stuff, please help some of my lovely bloggy friends conduct some research on how women geoscientists use blogs. Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed so much that this fall,...
Posted by SciWo at 12:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
A wonderful and alert reader writes: i know you have lots of astronomer readers, so you probably already know about this, but just in case not: http://wia2009.gsfc.nasa.gov/ this is a conference whose title is "women in astronomy 2009: meeting the...
Posted by SciWo at 1:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientiae
Patchi at My Middle Years has put together a great Scientiae carnival, reflecting (as it were) on Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. It's great -- go give it a good read, and share some link love for Patchi. Thanks, Patchi!...
Posted by Alice at 9:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in society
After the weekend, I'll be back with a follow up to the post on my progress towards tenure, and I'll try to address some of the substantive and thought-provoking comments that you all have raised. But, here in the States,...
Posted by SciWo at 4:20 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
